Article: Breaking the cycle.(JESUS' ALTERNATIVE TO VENGEANCE)(Love your enemy)

BLOOD FEUDS have plagued society for millennia and are still common in some parts of the world. I have experienced them between villages next to each other in Upper Egypt. The discoverer of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Muhammad Ali, told me that someone from the opposing village had murdered his father, whereupon his mother told him and his brothers to keep their mattocks sharp. Their chance came six months later, when someone told them that the murderer was asleep by the side of the road nearby. They rushed out and hacked him to pieces, dividing his heart among them to eat, the ultimate act of blood vengeance.

All this was told me in response to my asking Muhammad ...






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